Argyrea ( Latin: Argyreia ) is a genus of perennial flowering plants included in the tribe Ipomoeeae of the Convolvulaceae family .
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 Argyrea sinewy | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Argyreia Lour. , 1790 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Argyreia obtusifolia Lour., 1790 [2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Content
Title
The name Argyreia comes from other Greek. άργυρος - "silver", which refers to the silver color of the edges of the leaves of some species of this genus.
Botanical Description
Representatives of the genus are perennial creepers and herbaceous plants . Leaves are smooth or pubescent, of various shapes, with a smooth edge, located on the petioles.
Inflorescences are umbellate or loose capitate, located on the tops of shoots, contain few or quite a lot of flowers . Bracts fall quickly or do not fall at all. The calyx consists of five leathery or soft reddish, pubescent sepals externally. The corolla is five-petalled, tubular, bell-shaped or funnel-shaped, red, white or pink. Stamens are filiform. The pestle is also filiform, with a dicotyledon stigma. The ovary is divided into two or four branches.
The fruit is a spherical or elliptical berry , dyed to various shades of red and yellow, usually with 4 seeds .
Range
Argirea species grow in Asia ; one species is known in Australia .
Taxonomy
| 4 more families (according to APG II System ) | ||||||||||||
| 25 species | ||||||||||||
| pyloric order | clan Agirei | |||||||||||
| Department of Flowering, or Angiosperms | bindweed family | |||||||||||
| 44 more order flowering plants ( APG II System ) | about 40 more births | |||||||||||
Views
According to the database of The Plant List , the genus includes 28 species [3] :
- Argyreia acuta Lour.
- Argyreia androyensis Deroin
- Argyreia baoshanensis SHHuang
- Argyreia baronii Deroin
- Argyreia capitiformis ( Poir. ) Ooststr.
- Argyreia cheliensis CYWu
- Argyreia eriocephala CYWu
- Argyreia formosana Ishigami ex T. Yamazaki
- Argyreia fulvocymosa CYWu
- Argyreia fulvovillosa CYWu & SHHuang
- Argyreia henryi ( WGCraib ) WGCraib
- Argyreia lineariloba CYWu
- Argyreia marlipoensis CYWu & SHHuang
- Argyreia mastersii ( Prain ) Raizada
- Argyreia maymyo ( WWSm. ) Raizada
- Argyreia mollis ( Burm.f. ) Choisy
- Argyreia monglaensis CYWu & SHHuang
- Argyreia monosperma CYWu
- Argyreia nervosa ( Burm.f. ) Bojer - Argyrea sinewy
- Argyreia onilahiensis Deroin
- Argyreia osyrensis ( Roth ) Choisy
- Argyreia pierreana bois
- Argyreia roxburghii ( Wall. ) Arn. ex choisy
- Argyreia splendens ( Hornem. ) Sweet
- Argyreia strigillosa CYWu
- Argyreia vahibora Deroin
- Argyreia velutina CYWu
- Argyreia wallichii Choisy
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ Genus Argyreia (English) in the Index Nominum Genericorum database of the International Plant Taxonomy Association (IAPT) .
- ↑ Argyreia . The Plant List . Version 1.1. (2013). Date of treatment January 7, 2017.
Literature
- Argyreia Loureiro . Flora of China 16 : 313–321.